Frankenstein Important Quotes Essay
Important quotes from Frankenstein
“...an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” – RW, P.7
“I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean,” – RW, P.11
“We accordingly brought him back to the deck, and restored him to animation” – RW on VF, P.14
“...playful as a summer insect... lively as a bird... the most fragile creature” – VF on E, P.20
“, the first misfortune of my life occurred – an omen, as it were, of my future misery” – VF, P.25
“Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny” – VF on inevitable fate, P.30
“...my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.” – VF on actually having a caring father, also, Gothicism, P.31 …show more content…
Also, has he replaced religion with his actions, and replaced God with himself? P.108
LINK: “Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.” – Samuel Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
“But in Clerval I saw the image of my former self” – VF. Could it be that Clerval is the innocent, ambitious and excitable VF, and the monster is the corrupt and miserable VF? P.113
“, the sight of what is beautiful in nature... could always interest my heart.” – VF was (he is recollecting his childhood, here) a Romantic. Now, he has gone against nature and created something unnatural, P.114
“Had I a right... to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?” – VF suddenly gains a conscience. Was M simply a ‘test-run’? He has learnt his lesson, and he shall now tear up the female M, P.119
“Have my murderous machinations deprives you also, my dearest Henry, of life?” – VF, I think we now know who the murderer is, P.127
“The peasants were shut up in their hovels” – VF, so was M a peasant? P.148
“You have read this strange and terrific story... do you not feel your blood congealed with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?” – RW; so was the story Gothic?
“...an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.” – RW, P.7
“I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean,” – RW, P.11
“We accordingly brought him back to the deck, and restored him to animation” – RW on VF, P.14
“...playful as a summer insect... lively as a bird... the most fragile creature” – VF on E, P.20
“, the first misfortune of my life occurred – an omen, as it were, of my future misery” – VF, P.25
“Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny” – VF on inevitable fate, P.30
“...my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.” – VF on actually having a caring father, also, Gothicism, P.31 …show more content…
Also, has he replaced religion with his actions, and replaced God with himself? P.108
LINK: “Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.” – Samuel Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
“But in Clerval I saw the image of my former self” – VF. Could it be that Clerval is the innocent, ambitious and excitable VF, and the monster is the corrupt and miserable VF? P.113
“, the sight of what is beautiful in nature... could always interest my heart.” – VF was (he is recollecting his childhood, here) a Romantic. Now, he has gone against nature and created something unnatural, P.114
“Had I a right... to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?” – VF suddenly gains a conscience. Was M simply a ‘test-run’? He has learnt his lesson, and he shall now tear up the female M, P.119
“Have my murderous machinations deprives you also, my dearest Henry, of life?” – VF, I think we now know who the murderer is, P.127
“The peasants were shut up in their hovels” – VF, so was M a peasant? P.148
“You have read this strange and terrific story... do you not feel your blood congealed with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?” – RW; so was the story Gothic?